Dismissal for extreme wackiness

Today 1/3 dismisses an appeal here in which the pro per plaintiff sued a lawyer (who had beaten him in other litigation) in a 252-page complaint seeking $13.5 quadrillion in damages for a series of alleged conspiracies and crimes committed over the course of human history, including “Colonizing, Slavery, Human, Opium, Heroin, Trafficking, and Robbing the entire world today.”

Respondent moved to dismiss the appeal because its “fantastic, delusional and fanciful allegations . . . fall unquestionably into the category of frivolous cases where the Court of Appeal can and must act to stop the offending harassment and vexatious activity."

• Appellate courts have the “inherent power to summarily dismiss any action or appeal which has as its object to delay, vex or harass the opposing party or the court, or is based upon wholly sham or frivolous grounds.”
• The allegations in the complaint evince harassment. They are replete with invective and ad hominem personal attacks
• it is not difficult to conclude even at this stage that the appeal lacks merit
• any review of the complaint clearly reveals it to be harassing and [Appellant's] inability to even preview an intelligible argument to defend his complaint further underscores its lack of merit. We see no need to spend further limited judicial resources on such an appeal.